In this week's Sun­day Guardian, colum­nist Max­ie Cuffie writes:

"Much of the op­po­si­tion to the Rapid Rail was a re­sult of the PNM's shov­ing it down the na­tion's throat as a done deal. "Dr Row­ley recog­nised the project had its de­trac­tors, but an ad­min­is­tra­tion led by him would pro­ceed with it any­way. "That is the wrong ap­proach."

Al­so, Dr Sheila Ram­per­sad, in her first col­umn for the Sun­day Guardian, has this take on Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er: "Warn­er's world­view: among this leop­ard's spots were non se­quiturs, a phi­los­o­phy that vi­o­lence cures vi­o­lence, a mouth that out­runs brain, an in­abil­i­ty to coun­te­nance dis­agree­ment, and a wil­ful ten­den­cy to ar­ro­gate au­thor­i­ty he does not pos­sess."

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